Category: Personal (Page 5 of 9)

Tonight, in a beautiful candlelight ceremony in a glass ballroom behind a beautiful southern mansion, I married my wife and soulmate, Sara. She was as beautiful and radiant as I’ve ever seen her, and I’m in pure bliss right now.

For everyone who was invited and came, thank you so much for making the evening magical. For anyone expecting insightful design commentary – sorry, but for the next week, I’ll be in St. Maarten, where the food is french, the casinos inviting, the beaches are sunny, and the planes land about 20 feet from the beach they fly over, providing comical video opportunities of tourists washed away in jet backwash.

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My grandfather was always my hero.

When he was 13 years old, he was working on the family farm when he got his leg caught in a combine (a large piece of farming apparatus). He survived, but lost the leg. Even though he was the eldest son, his family effectively disowned him, with the logic that a wooden leg would rob him of the mobility needed to run the family farm. Continue reading

Paying a $2000 bill to surgically repair a cat’s snapped femur is a… very unique feeling.

So, in two months I’ll be married! October the 13th is the date. Yes, it’s a Friday, and no, we’re not superstitious.

We’re gearing up our preparations now – the space, the food, the officiant and the Honeymoon are taken care of. Invitations go out this week. We’re down to mostly little things, like the liquor (hmmm, you’d think that would have gotten higher priority). Also, now’s the time where all the ‘little things’ are starting to pop up. Continue reading

The fiancee and I watched 4th of july fireworks through a steady downpour from the fourth floor of a five floor parking garage, which gave us a clear (albeit distant) view of the light show above Austin’s Town Lake.

Normally, I’d say that rain on the 4th of July sucks. In this case, though, the heavens treated us to a rather spectacular lightning show that pretty much make the human-made gunpowder version pale by comparison.